With Fashion Week rapidly approaching (do you hear the freight train headed straight for me?), I've been trying to be more kind to my nails. I've been nurturing them with Perfect Formula's Pink Gel Coat, which seems to be helping nourish and strengthen them.  Today I decided that it was time to go back to polish - bare nails in the city are difficult to maintain.

Since I've been buffing and applying the gel coat, the surface of my nails have been fairly smooth. I decided to revisit Knockout Cosmetics Flatte nail polish in Plaster. As with most matte nail polishes, the formula dries quickly, so application can be tricky. I do find Knockouts formula to be a bit more tricky than most mattes, which makes applying one coat tricky. The get coat and buffed surface of my nails seemed to help smooth application to an almost seamless level.

On my ring finger and thumb, I chose to apply a normal glossy topcoat. For the rest of the nails, I chose to enhance Knockout's matte finish with Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Flatline, a matte topcoat.  To achieve this look, I needed to apply two coats of Putty for maximum opacity.

What are you wearing as we approach fall?

From the debut album The Family Jewels.